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Thursday, March 28, 2013

As there have been quite a few rogue decks popping up lately in the
international tournaments, today you’ll get a special treat from a (hopefully) already
familiar writer for you – Matijs Moree. I dared to say that no good rogues
would ever be possible be competitive in the current format, but he proved me
wrong with his VERY innovative decks, which led him to 3rd of Spring
Regionals!

I hope, I’ll get Kumis’ article soon as well, so you will get more articles
from the innovative parts of the format. At the moment, I’m just stuck with the
most competitive metagame decks in order to get the trip to Worlds!

Also, before we start the article, remember to tell your opinion about possible The Deck Out - playmats on my Facebook or Twitter page! If there are enough people who would like to see The Deck Out -playmats to happen, it will happen. I won't get any money from them, so I'll negotiate the price as low as possible.

Monday, March 25, 2013

If you are following me on Facebook or on Twitter, you already know that I
finally was able to reach the Finals in our last States Championships! What
deck did I play? Well, after looking at my Thursday’s blog entry, I think you
can very well guess what deck I played – Landorus EX.

As I was able to once again get a good placement, I guaranteed one bye for my
Nationals, which I’m very happy about, because I have played in so few
tournaments compared to the other players who got the bye (all of them have
played at least double the amount of tournaments compared to me).

Also, there were some VERY strange games in this tournament and I can easily
say that this was the weirdest tournament; I’ve played the whole season.
Anyways, let’s start with the deck list!

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Today I’ll be discussing the (in)arguable BDIF of the current format – Landorus
EX/Tornadus EX/Mewtwo EX/ (Garbodor). Once an underdog - now the best deck in
the format. What happened to the former BDIF Blastoise/Keldeo EX and why is
Landorus EX quickly become the best card in the format even though it’s still a
Water weak Pokémon?

The deck got no new attackers from the Plasma Storm, but
something happened to the deck to make it as good as it is now. What then
happened? That’s what I’m to find out in today’s entry.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Warp Point > Escape Rope

Hello everyone!

It’s been a while since I last made an old school tournament report. It was fun
playing in a tournament with a new format since ECC was with the older format.
I also felt like – spoiler alert – the tournament went very well even though I didn’t
win the whole thing. Also, at last league we built the decks from the MD-on
format and I once again understood why I back in the days loved the game. It
was 5% coin flipping, 80% skill (playing and deckbuilding), 15% luck. Nowadays,
the numbers are pretty much the other way around…

I also want to thank especially Simon Eriksen and Tord Reklev for the input for
the deck. I took the risk that there would be no Klinklangs and it paid off.
The problems. I had this deck were pretty interesting (not the usual Darkrai EX
problems). I also had SixPrizes.com dice with me in the tournament and I would
be forced to give a die to each person who wins me. My goal was to let one die
slip away. Did I succeed? Let’s start the report, so we can find out!

Thursday, March 14, 2013

One of the hottest topics in the States Championships discussion has been Plasma
Klinklang. Is it really viable? If it is a viable deck, the question is, is it
a threat to your deck and what you need to do in order to counter it? For some
reason Klinklang is always a very heated topic and this year it isn’t no
different. And it seems that John Roberts II is still a believer of Klinklang
as well!

Today, I’ll be concentrating on how to counter Klinklang with the top3 metagame
decks of the moment – Eelektrik, Darkrai EX and Blastoise. No Landorus EX
variants, even though the seems to be arguably the best deck in the format at
the moment? That’s mainly, because most of the best doing Landorus EX variants
out there run Garbdoror, which automatically shuts down Klinklang.

So, what do you need to do if you’re running the other top tier decks that can’t
afford running Garbodor in their lists? That’s what I’m here to find out.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

You know what day today is? The release date of Starcaft
2: Heart of the Swarm! Nonetheless, I'll be still writing to my blog regularly,
even though I believe I have never been busier in my life than at the moment.

States started last weekend and even though some international Regionals have
been played, we don’t really have any clear results from the tournaments.
Darkrai EX has been dominating somewhere and surprisingly Klinklang has been
doing very well for example in Finland. Garbodor/Landorus EX is still on the
run and been doing extremely well. However, since the new set is released,
there is also potential for completely new decks! And today I’ll take a look at
not probably the most competitive deck variant there is, but very interesting
and fun deck – Manaphy & Friends.

I’ll introduce two different variants of the deck and at the moment, I’m
thinking of playing one of these variants in my upcoming Regionals. They are
fun, consistent and can win any deck in the format – what else you need from a
deck in this format? With a little tweaking I can see these decks to
exceptionally especially in a very diverse format like the current format we
are now playing.